or sight does not seem to be true at all, that we can bring this thing to pass; but we can compel ourselves to cease all futile quibbling and go to work to prove the rule, each one in his own life.

The beautiful Presence all about us and within us is the substance of every good that we can possibly desire --- aye, infinitely more than we are capable of desiring, for "no eye has seen, nor ear heard, nor the human heart conceived, what God has prepared for those who love him" (1 Cor. 2:9).

In some way, which it is not easy to put into words --- for spiritual laws cannot always be compassed in words, and yet they are none the less infallible, immutable laws that work with precision and certainty --- there is power in our word of faith to bring all good things right into our everyday life.

We speak the word, we confidently affirm, but we have nothing to do with the "establishing" of the word, or bringing it to pass. "You will decide on a matter, and it will be established for you" (Job 22:28). So if we decree or affirm unwaveringly, steadfastly, we hold God by His own unalterable laws to do the establishing or fulfilling.

They who have carefully studied spiritual laws find that, besides denying the reality and power of apparent evil, which denying frees them from it, they also can bring any desired good into their lives by persistently affirming it is there already. In the first instructions given to students, the denials and